New York Times Called Trump This 2-Word Compliment in 1995… Media Dead Silent

Over the weekend, The New York Times did a hatchet job on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, ripping him for using nearly $1 billion in capital losses on his 1995 tax return to avoid federal income taxes for nearly 18 years.

Avoid, not evade. The losses did occur, and Trump’s countermeasures were legal. It’s just that The Times, which recently endorsed Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, somehow doesn’t like Trump as much as it did back when he was declaring those losses.

Clinton had a field day with the report, using the $1 billion loss to paint Trump as a failed businessman.

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“What kind of genius loses $1 billion in a single year?” she asked a crowd on Monday in Toledo, Ohio, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.

But what she and her like-minded friends in the media failed to take into consideration was that the year Trump declared the loss was the same year The Times ran an article about him having been transformed into the “Comeback Kid.”

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The piece centered on how Trump had gone from being worth minus $1 billion in 1991 to clawing his way back to success. In other words, though he did fail in business for a short while, he learned from his mistakes and bounced back like a champ.

“Though there are still four years to go in the 90’s, business and government leaders in New York honored Donald J. Trump yesterday for pulling off what they called ‘the comeback of the decade,'” The New York Times wrote.

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“Mr. Trump, the developer who came to epitomize opulent wealth during the 80’s before tumbling into deep financial trouble, has managed to erase much of his debt and is moving ahead with major projects at a time other developers are idling,” it added.

Twenty years later, the longtime businessman still remained on top of his game, commanding an empire worth $3.7 billion, as estimated by Forbes.

Whether or not Trump was a “genius” was most certainly up for debate, but the notion that a short run of losses made him a failure in business was outright ridiculous. His long-term success proved as much.

And the fact that The Times once praised him as the “Comeback Kid” — that was just icing on the cake.

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How The Times has changed from its gee-whiz tone! But of course the Times has other interests now and hopes we’ll forget its pro-Trump stance in 1995.